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No Way to Correct Customer's Accidental Negative Surveys

  • February 18, 2025
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Hey All,

 

I wanted to check in here because my team and I have been dealing with this issue for a long time. Whenever we receive a negative survey, I always follow up with the customer to see if there was anything more we could have done. In almost every case, the negative survey was submitted by mistake, but there’s no way to reverse or cancel it without deleting the ticket—which we don’t want to do, as we’d lose valuable ticket history and summary information.

 

One workaround I found is to reopen the ticket after confirming the survey was a mistake, send the customer an email letting them know I’m "resetting" it, and then mark it as resolved again. This triggers a new survey. However, instead of replacing the original response, it just adds another survey to the results.

 

This creates issues with our metrics and analytics. Right now, the only way to address it in company meetings is by showing screenshots of the customer’s response confirming the mistake.

 

I’m wondering if anyone has found custom solutions or better ways to handle this in their environment. For now, I plan to submit a feature request for an option that would allow administrators to manually correct or reset surveys for specific tickets.

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RobCrossHM
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  • February 18, 2025

I have the same frustration - customers will leave a lovely comment, but accidentally select negative.

Also, your workaround can also mess up your stats like FCR and ticket re-open rate, so this part of the system is a little messy.

But, I think Fresh will say that allowing an administrator to delete negative stats could be abused.

 

 


RobCrossHM
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The way I handle negative feedback is that I have an automation setup to detect them and to create me a review ticket..


I then route that new ticket to me


i use that ticket to add notes/enagage with the customer, and then when I’ve ascertained the outcome, send them an email with my findings, and another resolution survey.

This approach also keeps our Compliance Manager happy that I have a process to manage customer feedback


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  • February 18, 2025

Thank you for sharing! I’ll play around with that idea.

I can see why Freshdesk might argue that allowing administrators to manually modify surveys could lead to potential abuse.

I was thinking that might be the simplest solution for their development team, but a better fix could be adding functionality that allows customers to resubmit or modify their completed survey. That way, we could share a link to help guide them through the process when needed.

-Will


mahendarsingh
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  • February 20, 2025

Hi ​@vrc.William ,

I hope you are doing well :)

I understand that you want to allow customers to edit the survey this has been taken as a feature request from our end.

Feel free to respond to this thread for any queries :)

Thank you


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  • February 20, 2025

@mahendarsingh Thank you!! If you have a link to that feature request, I would love to bump or vote for it. I’ll look for it, I found similar feature requests and voted for those too.

 

I actually wanted to share another workaround in analytics that I was playing with yesterday.

I usually keep an eye on our dashboard for bad reviews and also get an email notification whenever a negative one comes in. When I see one, I follow up with the customer through the ticket.

If they confirm that they left a bad rating by accident, I add a tag like "Negative Survey Error." Then, in my custom analytics report, I can filter out negative surveys with this tag.

Now, like the original argument, this could technically be abused. But it doesn’t remove the negative review—it still appears in our dashboard. To keep things fair, I may set up a ticket filter search and review these tagged cases monthly, just to ensure agents aren’t misusing it.

For me, it’s worth the extra steps because it helps the team stay motivated by seeing accurate results when they’re working hard.

 

 


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